12-Year-Old ‘This Is Us’ Star Lonnie Chavis Shares His Personal Experiences With Racism, Declares ‘America Needs To Change’
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etcanada.comKnown for playing the younger version of Sterling K. Brown’s Randall Pearson on “This Is Us”, 12-year-old Lonnie Chavis has written an open letter about experiencing racism during his life.
What began as a letter to his mother became a powerful and candid essay about what it’s like to be a Black male on the cusp of adolescence in 2020, published in its entirety in People. “My life matters, but does it?” he writes. “America paints a very clear picture of how I should view myself.
America shows me that my Blackness is a threat, and I am treated as such.” RELATED: Whoopi Goldberg Discusses Systemic Racism, Police Brutality: ‘Racism Is In The Heart Of The Country, You Can’t Get Away From It’ Writing that his parents showed him such movies as
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